Parents will not be allowed to take older children along on picnics or coffee dates with friends next month.
Under Boris Johnson's roadmap out of lockdown, people will be allowed to socialise outdoors with a friend or family member from another household from March 8.
The first stage of the PM's four-step plan to ease restrictions will tweak the rules to allow you to have a picnic or a cup of coffee in a park with one other person from March 8.
"From 8 March, the Stay at Home restriction will continue but it will be amended so that people can leave home for recreation as well as exercise outdoors - with their own household, support or childcare bubble, or with one person from another household," the roadmap states.
"Social distancing and other safe behaviours should be followed."
It marks a shift from the current rules only allow you to meet someone outside of your household for exercise.
Children under 5-years-old and two carers for a person with a disability are not counted in the limits on gatherings.
Initial reports suggested this could be extended to older children to allow grandparents to be reunited with their grandchildren.
"If grandparents had had the vaccine, that would be likely to be ok. Given that people will have immunity, that would be a fair assumption, but nothing has been decided," a Government source told the Telegraph.
However it is understood that older children will not be exempt from the limit on numbers, meaning parents would not be allowed to bring their kids along on meet-ups.
The PM's plan paves the way for groups of six - or two households - to meet outdoors from when the second stage of Step 1 begins after March 29.
People will be able to mingle in beer gardens in Step 2, which comes no earlier than April 12.
Indoor gatherings of six people will be banned until at least May 17 when ministers hope to implement Step 3 - when 30-strong outdoor gatherings will also be allowed.
The road map acknowledges "it may be possible to go further than this" on indoor meetings "depending on the data".
Social distancing rules between friends and family will be reviewed around this time - which could allow hugs for the first time since last March.
All dates could change if the virus spirals out of control again.
